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I had a Texas State Trooper intervene with a local cop who was trying to write me a ticket for no front plate (which was mounted on my air dam underneath the bumper). The trooper lives in town and had noticed my car from a local car show a few weeks before.
Trooper - "Is there a problem here?"
Cop - "No front plate.."
Trooper - "Are you sure?"
Cop - "Well he has one, but it's not mounted properly and is not visible"
Trooper - "Officer do you even know the state law on plate visibility?"
Cop - *awfully confused look on his face* "Uhhhhhhh yeah.........?"
Trooper - "Law states that the front plate has to be visible from 50ft... which it is, and 2ft.. and if that means you have to get on your hands and knees to look for it, then that is what you will do to uphold the law."
Cop - "You have got to be kidding me."
Trooper - "I know for a fact it's visible from 50ft because I saw it pulling up.... now is it visible from 2ft?"
Cop - "You're not seriously making me loo-"
Trooper - "Yerrupp"
Cop - *mumbling insults as he gets down on the street looking at my plate* "Oookaaay"
Trooper - "I think we're done here officer, there's no infraction. Probably a good idea to spend his taxes on more important things from now on."
The cop walked back to his patrol car steaming pissed, damn near did a neutral drop and burned out as he left.
The trooper gave me his card and told me to call him if I needed any help getting out of a bind.
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... 3 months later he got me out of a speeding ticket doing 165mph in a 70mph zone.
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